Gonzalez fatally stabbed Sanchez multiple times at a walking trail near the Haynes Recreation Center in July 2017. Prosecutors said the two did not know each other. And no motive was mentioned during the five-day trial.

Sanchez's uncle and brother discovered her body using the Find My Friends app. She had been stabbed more than 15 times, according to the Webb County Medical Examiner's Office. Her throat had also been cut.

Three days after the slaying, Gonzalez was detained in connection with the case. His father had called police saying that the man shown in surveillance video images released by LPD appeared to be his son.

Surveillance footage showed Gonzalez driving Sanchez's car on the night of the homicide, police said. He stopped at a convenience store and then parked the car in the Cheyenne Subdivision, where it was later found by officers, according to LPD.

A DNA analyst testified Thursday that Sanchez's genetic profile matched DNA found on a bloodstained shoe at Gonzalez's home and his T-shirt.